As expected, there are conflicting views on how Venezuela is doing on these matters. On one side, the Venezuelan State. In the other, independent NGOs who will make their cases in the Palais Wilson, where all UN human rights bodies gather and work. If you want to follow the review in detail, you can visit the Examen ONU Venezuela Twitter account and blog for more information.

A UN sub-committee made public their findings over the actions of the institution, and found that both its actions and omissions put into question the impartiality and independence of such authority. Current Ombudsman Tarek William Saab was given a one-year notice to make major changes, or it will lose its UN voice and vote privileges.

But the issue of human rights continue to be of the highest interest at home and abroad. Now more than ever when there are some human rights activists that are either being incarcerated, spied upon or publicly harassed.

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7 thoughts on “Human rights in Venezuela face UN tests”

Lots of credit to the NGOs that have been making a point that not just political rights but also rights to food and proper healthcare are being curtailed. Human rights are a very broad thing—yet in every measure the government fails, even categories which are newer to them.

Forget Saab, you need only look at how Maduro responded when the UN first raised those yellow flags.
He said he won’t stand for any defamation of Venezuela from anyone, and he reiterated the same point in Panama.
It won’t matter what the UN says or does to our Ombudsman. The decision is not Saab’s to make, even if he wasn’t a puppet.

These bureaucratic organisations are beyond pathetic. All they do is talk, when they do anything at all. The UN, what a bunch of clowns. What do they do about entire Genocides, like we constantly see in Africa or Asia? Talk, and ignore most of it.

This is where politics sucks not just in Vzla, but everywhere, Europe, the USA.. They’re a bunch of liars in the end, just look how everyone now seems to be in Love with Cuba! Cuba, of all dictatorships, not a “terrorist state” anymore, buddy-buddy with the US and the UN, and all the others, as long as there are some juicy deals out there, huh..

If There is something we should know by now, is tnat there there’s no organization that’s as worthless as the UN. To give you an idea, Over at the Palais Wilson, Saudi Arabia, that paragon of Human Rights, heads the UN Human Rights Council…